Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-05-07
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAl.

john Wanamaker is to build
hotel in Philadelphia for women who
earn their own livings.
Queen Victoria acknowledges
through her secretary every poem sent
to her. She never reads them.
Lady Duferin is paying the ex-
penscs of several persons studying in
America for mission work in India.
Christine Nilsson began under Sig.
Merelli for $500 month. A few years
later the Signor had to pay the Swed-
ish nightingale 81, 400 night
A London beggar has on the card
he wears plastered to his chest the
words: please beStow a glance and "a
copper on one who can bestow
neither
Mrs. Folk, widow of James X.
Polk, still resides in the old homestead
at Nashville. She is over eighty years OF
age, but is in good health, and possess
es a memory of unimpaired vigor.
-Kwoh Hao, the young Emperor of
| China, who has been declared "of age
at sixteen, has assumed the full reins
of Government. His name signifies
Continuation of Glory. "-Chicago
Herald.
An organ grinder living in Ho-
boken, n. j., took his savings, amount
ing to Sl,056, out of his strong
box on Wednesday and gave
them to his son to deposit in savings
bank. Son has not been heard from
since,
-Longfellow was a tender-hearted
boy. One day he followed his elder
brother, who was natural sportsman,
into the woods for game. He came
home with his eyes full of tears be-
cause he had shot and killed robin
He never went hunting again. - -C'nctn-
nati Times.
The Duke of Argyle, father of the
, Marquis of Lorne and Lord Colin Camp
bell, is small man, with big head
, and the face Of mud-carter, He has
: a mass of bushy white hair, his shirt is
, always frayed at the collar, he invari-
: ably wears rusty frock coat and
: trousers five inches too short.
, -"Mr. Gladstone, - says writer in
, the Nineteenth Century, "is, Of all not
, able men | have met, about the least
= able to mask his emotions, skillful as
he is in cloaking his thoughts. He is a
highly emotional man, and there is
about him, moreover, something dis
tinctly mesmeric. ."-BOston Budget.
q, A physician in New York City has
5 the following inscription on his bill
Y heads: A patients gratitude to his
4 doctor is Il part of his disease and is
4 most declared when the fever is high
est, cools off during convalescence and
, entirely disappears with the complete
| return to health. All bills due upon
r presentation. Office prescriptions and
5 attendance strictly cash.
2 A Russian peasant employed Il,
u watchman on an estate near Odessa
= aroused the ill-feclng of Jews by inn
> pounding their tray cattle. The Jews
= docoyed him into a barn, where they
immersed their victim several times il
d caldron of boiling water, and ther
= flung him out into q neighboring field
c The unfortunate peasant fingered three
c days in great agony and then died.
u Chicago Times.
"a Though William Rockefeller, thu
q millionaire, owns some of the finest ant
e fastest horses in New York, and hesi
d tates not at the price when he wants
y good stopper, yet he is an enthusiastic
Is rider on shank's mare every day. III
. walks from his uptown house to th'
- Standard Oil building, more than fou
y miles, every day. That is the reason
!. why he keeps clear eye, unwrinkle'
V face and good digestion.-N o
1t Times Democrat.